Paul C. Tang, MD, FACMI

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American Medical Informatics AssociationState of
the Association Meeting

• Paul C. Tang, MD, FACMI
• Chairman

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2006 Board of Directors

• Patricia Abbott
• E. Andrew Balas
• David W. Bates
• Betty L. Chang
• James J. Cimino
• Connie J. Delaney
• Don E. Detmer
• Charles P. Friedman
• Mark E. Frisse

• Paul N. Gorman
• Kevin B. Johnson
• Gilad Kuperman
• Judy Murphy
• Judy G. Ozbolt
• Charles Safran
• Daniel Z. Sands
• Justin B. Starren
• Paul C. Tang

Executive Committee
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2006 Board Strategic RetreatGood to Great,
Collins

• Board identified 4 areas of focus for 2006-7
• Professional Home
• Educational Outreach
• Corporate Relations
• Knowledge Management

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Professional Home Task Force

• AMIA - professional home for members who view
  biomedical/health informatics as their primary
  activity
• AMIA is seen as the premier organization for
  biomedical /health informatics research
  education by all others
• Co-chairs Paul Gorman Kevin Johnson
• Members Patti Brennan, Atul Butte, Cindy Gadd,
• Gil Kuperman, Sandi Mitchell, Janise Richards
• Example key initiatives
• Construct a professional profile of members
• Identify services, activities, products for
  members
• Academic Strategic Leadership Council Academic
  Forum

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Education Outreach Task Force

• Bring informatics education to the point of need
• Co-chairs Bill Hersh Connie Delaney
• Members John Holmes, Gil Kuperman, Paul Tang
• Example key initiatives
• AMIA 10x10 (California HealthCare Foundation
  Scottsdale Institute)
• PHIN Conference involvement (education
  membership)
• DIA Conference Tutorial (Holmes Covvey)

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• AMIA Academic Forum Preliminary Membership
  Criteria
• Self-declaration by informatics programs
• Must lead an academic unit having faculty
  students
• More than one academic unit per setting
  allowed/envisioned
• Focus on post baccalaureate programs
• Demonstrated commitment to AMIA through
  membership

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Corporate Relations Task Force

• Foster enduring relationships that support mutual
  interests stimulate informatics innovation
  use
• Co-chairs Danny Sands Steve Labkoff
• Members Peter Goltra, Sarah Ingersoll, Jonathan
  Leviss, Eric Rose, Paul Tang, Charlene Underwood,
  Charlotte Weaver
• Example key initiatives
• Identify mutual interest of corporate partners
• Secondary use of health data summit white paper
• Innovation Information Center

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Knowledge Management Task Force

• Organize disseminate executable knowledge
• Co-chairs Jerry Osheroff Jonathan Teich
  (Clinical Decision Support)
• Members Don Detmer, Gil Kuperman
• Disseminate clinical trial results in computable
  language
• Chair Chuck Jaffe (Global Trial Bank)
• Members Charles Barr, Howard Bilofsky, Alan
  Breier, Don Detmer, Brian Druker, Chris Chute,
  Ken Getz, Zak Kohane, Ronald Krall, Christian
  Lovis (IMIA), Joyce Niland, Doug Peddicord, Ida
  Sim, Richard Smith, Emma Veitch, Kwak Yun Sik
  (IMIA)

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2006 Election Results

• Charles Safran, MD, FACMI
• Past Chairman Nominating Committee Chair

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• Incoming Chairman-elect
• AMIAs Chairman-elect for 2007
• Chairman for 2008-2009
• David W. Bates, MD, MSc
• Brigham Womens Hospital

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• Newly Elected /or Re-elected Board Members
• Serve on the Board of Directors for 2007-2009
  term
• Eta S. Berner, EdD, FACMI UA-Birmingham
• Christoph U. Lehmann, MD Johns Hopkins
  University
• Leslie A. Lenert, MD, MS, FACMI San Diego VA
• Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI Aurora Health Care

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Financial Report

• Justin B. Starren, MD, PhD, FACMI
• Treasurer

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• 2005 Audited Year End
• Revenue 2,653,755
• Expense 2,435,119
• Balance 218,636

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• 2005 Balance Sheet
• Assets 2,454,330
• Liabilities 828,658
• Equity 1,625,672

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• AMIA Assets

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Year in Review

• Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, FACMI
• President CEO

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The Google Test - Nov 14, 2006

• Informatician - 246,000
• Informationist - 35,600
• Informaticist - 26,400
• Dermatologist - 301,000

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More Googling Nov. 14, 2006

• Biomedical Informatics
• - 1,600,000
• Clinical Informatics
• - 2,450,000
• Health Informatics
• - 14,400,000
• Public Health Informatics
• - 3,490,000
• Translational Bioinformatics
• - 396,000

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AMIAs Agenda1) Through Informatics, transform
Healthcare (broadly defined) for Individuals
Populations Equitable, Efficient, Effective,
Patient-centered, Timely, Safe2) Transform
Informatics from a serious avocation to a
formally recognized health profession

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• AMIA Mission
• AMIA advances the informatics profession.
• To this end it advances the use of health
  communications information science technology
  with the ultimate objective of improving health
  in clinical care
• .personal health management
• .public health/population
• .education
• .research

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• AMIA Domains
• AMIAs programs initiatives support three
  major domains of informatics
• 1. Clinical or health care (including personal
  health management)
• 2. Public health/population
• 3. Translational bioinformatics

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• AMIA Members
• 3,700 members
• Of those indicating an area of interest
• 68 clinical or health care (including personal
  health management)
• 24 public health/population
• 8 translational bioinformatics
• This comes from WG demographic information

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• AMIA Revenue in 2007
• 4 million in revenue
• 36 in annual symposium
• 23 in member services
• 22 in new initiatives
• 5 in spring congress
• 12 in educational programs
• 2 in administration

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• AMIA Expense in 2007
• 3.84 million in expense
• 35 in administration
• 22 in member services
• 17 in annual symposium
• 11 in new initiatives
• 10 in educational programs
• 5 in spring congress
• Includes administrative overhead allocation

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• Advocacy Outreach
• Support for Wu Bill - 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act
  (NSF funding)
• AMIA 3rd Annual Day on the Hill
• Cosponsor with NCI of Critical Issues in eHealth
  Research 2006 (Sept 11-12, 2006)
• Participation with AHIMA on joint advocacy
  efforts
• Position statements on confidentiality, PHR
  guidance and workforce
• Participation in Capitol Hill Steering Committee
  on Telehealth Healthcare
• Invited testimony expert advice to Energy
  Commerce, NCVHS, ONC, AHIC, ASPE
• Support for ICD-10, increased public health
  funding promoting HIT adoption
• AAMC Council of Academic Societies, CDISC
  Council of Medical Specialty Societies

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• 2006 AMIA Policy Papers (Partners/Support)
• Guideposts to the Future An Agenda for Nursing
  Informatics (AHRQ)
• Clinical Decision Support Roadmap (ONC)
• Blue Ribbon Panel on the Secondary Use of Health
  Data
• (GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Intelligent
  Medical Objects, Lockheed Martin, Medstat,
  Pfizer, RemedyMD)
• Healthcare Terminologies and Classifications An
  Action Agenda for the United States (AHIMA)
• Roundtable on integrated PHR (Kaiser, AHRQ,
  RWJF)
• AHRQ/NRC Policy Paper Series
• Nursing Informatics in Rural Health (AHRQ)
• Patient Safety and Health Informatics (AHRQ)
• Clinical Workflow Change (AHRQ)
• Small Practice EHR Implementation (AHRQ)
• Informatics Research Issues (AMIA/ACMI survey
  presented at Spring Congress)
• Completed and/or in press
• In review
• In preparation

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• Annual Symposium
• Continued tutorial series program
• Primer series
• EHR series
• Methods series
• Selected topics series
• 1,000 submissions
• 2000 attendees
• ACMI senior member presentations
• Late breaking sessions
• Academic Affairs
• Clinical Decision Support Roadmap
• NIH research issues/CTSAs
• Policy Panel
• AHIMA/AMIA Terminology/Classification

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• 2007 Spring Congress
• New opportunity for panel submissions
• Multi-tracked, strategically aligned meeting
  planned
• Clinical decision support
• Nursing
• Personal health records
• Public health/population
• Translational research informatics
• Poster sessions
• Active working group involvement sought
• Open Presentation proposals

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• Education Initiatives
• JAMIA
• Top cited informatics journal (4.3)
• Editor-in-chief Randy Miller
• 10x10 Program
• 276 by end of meeting
• 9724 to go
• New e-Learning Center
• Webinars
• Podcasts
• Archive of offerings
• Academic Forum Academic Strategic Leadership
  Council - Chairmen Mark Musen Bill Stead

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Coming Events for 2007

• 1)
• Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies PBS Special on
  Safety Bates et al (supported by Pfizer)
• Projects with
• Pharmaceutical Safety Institute
• ICDL-US
• Others
• 2) . Protocols in Computable
  Language
• . HIV/AIDS/TBC Low Resource Environments
• 3) American College
  of Physicians, others Other Academic Centers
  coming into 10x10 in clinical translational
  bioinformatics

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• AMIA Strategic Goals - 2007
• Help develop implement health
  information/communications technology (HICT)
  health information/communications infrastructure
• Clinical Decision Support initiative
• Strengthen research infrastructure for health
  informatics
• AHCs / CTSA Linkages
• Expand size competency of health informatics
  workforce develop the health informatics
  profession
• 10x10 Applied Clinical Informatics Essentials
  Academic Forum ASLC
• Contribute to sound state, federal, global HICT
  policy
• Got EHR? Wu Bill other
• Provide thought leadership be a
  catalyst/incubator for new ideas
• Innovation Center Corporate Development new
  Awards

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• Special thanks to AMIA Leaders Staff
• Board of Directors
• Outgoing directors
• Patti Abbott, Andy Balas, Mark Frisse
• Incoming directors
• Eta Berner, Chris Lehmann, Les Lenert
• 2006 Scientific Program Committee
• Committees, Working Groups, Task Forces
• AMIA Staff
• Karen Greenwood, Jeff Williamson, Meryl
  Bloomrosen
• Tia Abner, Willie Clark, Dasha Cohen, Mary Evans
• Jason Harbonic. Marilyn Harrison, Jeffrey Luke,
• Jamilah Shami, Elaine Steen, Susanne
  Vellucci

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• And special thanks to you our members.